Here are few web hosting companies that i recommend.

I personally have used hostgator, hostmonster and godaddy. What i hate about godaddy hosting is that it is very slow. Also to get you your hosting you have to get through 3-4 steps like login to godaddy account, click Hosting under My Products, then click Manage Account and then your host manager opens up. Also it takes a lot of time to setup a database (mysql) on godaddy as it shows it as pending setup for sometime.
On the other hand hostmonster …

I am sharing a list of freelance projects websites. All you need is a computer with internet connection and obviously you need to have few skills to find work on these websites. If you are good at programming quickly, can design, can write content then you are likely to get success through these websites
http://www.rentacoder.com
http://www.odesk.com
http://www.guru.com
http://www.scriptlance.com
http://www.getafreelancer.com
http://www.getacoder.com
http://www.limeexchange.com/
http://www.elance.com
http://www.worldcomputerhelp.com/
http://www.vois.com

Ecommerce Shopping Carts:
Zencart
osCommerce
Magento
osCMax
Content Management Systems:
Joomla
PhpNuke
Drupal
Mambo
Blogs:
WordPress
Forums:
Phpbb
FTP Client:
Filezilla
Web Browser:
Firefox
Office:
Open Office